Reading this bug report title & history, it is very misleading. Building cross-toolchains, and cross-toolchains that are multiarch compatible has been possible to do before (stable) and is possible in current planned release (testing).
I have provided the documentation links to that in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766708#187 New feature of gcc packaging was developed in jessie - building multiarch compatible toolchains bootstrapped with aid from pre-existing foreign-arch multiarch packages. This new feature has been enabled and exposed, however subsequently failed peer review & found to be incomplete for jessie and thus public interface to those codepaths have been made private. This has been communicated to all parties involved. This bug has then been opened, and reading the history of it there are quite a few inaccuracies in it. To resolve deficiencies of the proposed patches further work is needed that is being undertaken. Specifically landing improvements to our buildd network & sbuild to enable multiarch repository access during building, packaging/preparing toolchain-base packages (that is building host-arch libc & linux-headers without requiring enabling multiple architectures neither during their build, nor buildds, or the resultant toolchain time nor requiring access to multiarch repositories). Not only that is stand-alone, it also is more resilient against architecture skew. For more details see wookey and/or hist talk at Mini-Debocnf 2013 in Cambridge. In that sense, developers involved are working on a consensus way to improve cross-building in Debian. There is no need for a ruling or overrides - since there is no completed solution available yet. The original request here seems to originate from dissatisfaction that proposed patches failed peer review and ended up applied, but disabled. Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/canbhlujrxabadbd92bmbjkk-w-6sfp7krhv6kdm+dnmc+cc...@mail.gmail.com